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India's Heart-Health Crisis

The challenge was to visualize the impact of heart disease on India. We were provided with a data set with statistics from the World Health Organization and The Earth Institute that explore the prevalence and burden of heart conditions in the country from a variety of angles. The objective was to show why India should care about this crisis in cardiovascular health and to surface new insights that could help drive new solutions.

- Visualizing Marathon, New Delhi, 2012. With Roshini Pochont & Shreya Chakravarty
Mindmaps & Post-its to break down the data and understand the topic.
After going through the data, we chalked out information that should be presented by asking ourselves what the reader would want to know.
Showing how Cardiovascular diseases have started hitting Indian's at an earlier age.
How much India loses because of CVDs in terms of productive years and economy.
Why the Indian Heart is more susceptible to CVDs.
India's Heart-Health Crisis
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India's Heart-Health Crisis

Visualizing the impact of cardiovascular diseases on India's future.

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